The concrete slab on Moffat Boulevard at Garfield Avenue south of Manteca High represents yet another cost saving move by municipal engineers trying to comply with an expensive federal arsenic mandate without triggering a water rate increase.

Manteca District Ambulance paramedic Troy Hawkins, 30, had a premonition – one he acted on – that saved the life of his 34-year-old brother Travis from a snowmobile accident and a freezing death in deep snow.